Anny-Yolande Horowitz
Born on June 2, 1933 in Strasbourg.
Last lived at 21, rue Rode, Bordeaux.
Interned in the Lalande camp near Tours and then transferred to
Drancy.
From there, she, her mother Frieda, and her sister Paulette, age 7,
were deported on Sept. 11, 1942 on Convoy 31.
Their destination: Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Aside from these stark facts, all we know of Anny is what is on her I.D. card: that she was Jewish, had blonde hair, blue eyes, rosy complexion, and was of moderate height. And that she had very cute little-girl handwriting.
I'd give anything to know more about this sad-eyed angel, and the thousands upon thousands of children who died alongside her.
This photo is from "French Children of the Holocaust: A Memorial" by Serge Klarsfeld. It's a huge doorstop of a book containing whatever photos and information that remain of the 11,000 French-Jewish children who were murdered by Nazis like Klaus Barbie (who Klarsfeld helped put on trial). The number of beautiful, innocent faces in this book is overwhelming. The book cost me $85 but I didn't care - I needed to remember those faces.
Comments and faves
sunnybrook100, jakerome, ArtByChrysti, Panoramas, and 216 other people added this photo to their favorites.
sunnybrook100 (71 months ago | reply)
Sweet beautiful innocent child - Rest in Peace.
saultakesphotos (71 months ago | reply)
How could anyone do anything bad at all to such a pretty, delicate thing?
Solitaire Miles (71 months ago | reply)
How sad, she has such an angelic face
Zzzzt!Zzzzt! (71 months ago | reply)
Deeply, deeply sad, and incomprehensibly monstrous.. glad she is remembered here.
Tim McDonough (71 months ago | reply)
I can't comprehend such things. Do you think she knew or had any idea what fate awaited her? It's hard to tell looking at her face. Is that resignation or just exhaustion?
rosewithoutathorn84 (71 months ago | reply)
I'll bet she knew something bad would happen - you can see a resignation and sadness in her eyes.
At least I thought of one way to remember her more concretely: among my future kids will be a girl named Annelise (in memory of both Anny-Yolande and Anne Frank - Annelise was her full name)!
Judy Wilkenfeld [deleted] (71 months ago | reply)
Interesting to see that the number is 418.
18 meaning "Chai" - life.
For, life.
Glad to see this posted , would love to see more.
mad4books (71 months ago | reply)
Anny and her sister Paulette are both remembered by a cousin, Eve Cerf, in the Vad Yashem database.
www4.yadvashem.org/lwp/workplace/IY_HON_Entra nce
Lauren Stranahan (71 months ago | reply)
This photo gave me goose bumps all over.
Saul Panzer (mostly in reality these days) (71 months ago | reply)
I almost felt bad making this a favorite - can a photo like this be anyones favorite - but did it anyway to be able to remember.
50 million people died in WW2 most of them civilians...
rosewithoutathorn84 (70 months ago | reply)
don't feel bad for faving her - it'll make it easier to remember her, and I'm sure she'd appreciate it.
C&Janusz (70 months ago | reply)
Its good to know that people like you do as much as possible for help others know shoah victims and remember them forever.
lucioforterepubblica (70 months ago | reply)
"sleep in peace, sweet princess, and angels may watch your rest"
auslorri (70 months ago | reply)
Beautiful and so atrocious... I just finished reading the book "The boy in the striped pyjamas" - It was a simple easy read - with some hard-hitting moments feauturing exactly what this young girl went through.. a story of 2 children, one from one side (of the fence) and another who's father was the commandant........ heartwrenching. A must read!! for anyone interested in the 'camps' at Auschwitz
.violaine. (69 months ago | reply)
Heartbreaking...
rosewithoutathorn84 (69 months ago | reply)
I'm always glad when people add Anny as a favorite - it makes me feel as if at least she'll live on in more people's memories than she might otherwise have done.
Airships (69 months ago | reply)
powerful testament
alichellis (68 months ago | reply)
Incomprehensibly sad.
May they all rest in peace.
Thank you for posting this, and bless you for your heart.
saultakesphotos (68 months ago | reply)
Daniel Selby (68 months ago | reply)
Sweet Angel- Rest In Peace...
aurora_sogna (67 months ago | reply)
Thank you for posting this.
A prayer for Anny and the children victims of all wars.
gem66 (67 months ago | reply)
I almost cannot comment on this. It makes me think of all of the innocent victims of all the wars. Such a mad world we live in. Most of us don't want it to be that way, but the few who do seem to get their way.
bethisrael1 (65 months ago | reply)
A shana medela
Pixeltopia (65 months ago | reply)
wow, my eyes just welled with tears...
Jennifer Esperanza (63 months ago | reply)
≈ it is beyond my mind..& has always broken my heart that is happened
yes... & will always bring tears to my eyes ≈ bless all the souls who died
in the awful holocaust ≈
Om Shanti {Om Peace}
alichellis (63 months ago | reply)
Do you think it would be alright for me to paint her image?
I paint alot of angels and would like to paint her face.
God bless her.
rosewithoutathorn84 (63 months ago | reply)
Sure, feel free. I'm sure wherever Anny is, she'd appreciate it. :)
beach babies (63 months ago | reply)
I'm the administrator for a group called "Faces of the Lost (Holocaust victims)" www.flickr.com/groups/683885@N20/ and I'd love to have your photo posted there.
lelyha (61 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called The Flowers of Evil, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
basilyskos (61 months ago | reply)
Beautiful sad doll face...
Seen it in www.flickr.com/groups/flowersofevil/
phoppernowlin (61 months ago | reply)
I remember with you.
Simon-1977 [deleted] (61 months ago | reply)
I love her, the little angel. I wish I could reach out and help her right now.
Bill Wight CA (59 months ago | reply)
Interesting image!
Ol' Wizard (57 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called People Who Look Like Angels, Fairies or Elves, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
LeaMusikera (55 months ago | reply)
it breaks my heart to see these beautiful creatures hurt like no deserves to be hurt...:(
Howard33 (54 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called A vintage year: 1933, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Mysi(new stream: www.flickr.com/photos/mysianne) (53 months ago | reply)
i saw her face and her eyes and before i even read her story, i googled her to see if i could find another photo of her because she has lovely hair and i'm looking at vintage hair pictures. and then i read who she is. and my heart fell apart.
ahhh.
♥
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Brule Laker (52 months ago | reply)
I had tears in my eyes as soon as I looked at this photo. Thank you for sharing it and reminding us once again what so many gave up so we could be free today . . . and forever.
P.A.N.I.K. (52 months ago | reply)
may god bless her
hitler showed us that humans aren't able not to follow the majority
HeyPlayGirl99 (51 months ago | reply)
=(
rev_adan (50 months ago | reply)
yes...millions of people were murdered during that year..men women and children. ..God bless them all....seen the documentary of this on the National Geo..very sad...
Ol' Wizard (50 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Striking Beauty, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
citypix (50 months ago | reply)
Thank you so much for sharing this beauty, this life, more than you know.
It makes me (and so many others) so sad. and even more sad in a different way is the loss of Jews in Europe as they were before, living in shtetls. That they are all gone forever. I wish it weren't true!
Euro·Frizz (49 months ago | reply)
I have been staring at this photo for the past 20 minutes. It truly entranced me. It startled me a bit at first because it resembles me as a child.
I know you've heard it, but I want to say again Thank You for posting this photograph. It's like a mystery book with no ending...
Never forget.
Matic18 (49 months ago | reply)
She looks like an angel. Sad little angel.
Because of her religion not allowed to have a childhood, not allowed to live. Rest in peace.
Shalom.
Tripp124 (49 months ago | reply)
Never forget. Never again.
Shalom
wiggiewormdog (47 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called sad world, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
face painter (46 months ago | reply)
This year, on 21 April 2009, Holocaust Memorial Day was observed in the tiny and isolated village of Bass River, Nova Scotia at Veterans Memorial Park, a creation of the village's family physician, Dr Karen Ewing. Karen created the park a few years ago to honour veterans of all wars, some of whom are her patients. Sadly, the list of the dead is getting longer as we lose sons and daughters in Afghanistan.
On Yom haShoah, the day recognized by Nova Scotia as Holocaust Memorial day, about 100 persons braved the dreary, cold and wet weather to recognize persons who perished in the Holocaust. Although no known Jews live in Bass River, The Rabi-at-Large for Atlantic Canada was present, as well as several Jewish persons who crawled out of the woodwork (or more likely, out of the woods) of whom not even the Rabi was aware.
Dr Ewing's research showed that in addition to 6 million Jews, as many as one-half million Gypsies, at least 250,000 mentally or physically disabled persons, and more than three million Soviet prisoners-of-war also fell victim to Nazi genocide. Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, Social Democrats, Communists, partisans, trade unionists, Polish intelligentsia and other undesirables were also victims of the hate and aggression carried out by the Nazis. I mention this in no way to belittle the tragedy that befell the european jews, who unlike the other groups, were systemically rounded up and murdered, but to show how we all can be affected by such terrible discrimination and hatred.
The number of children killed during the Holocaust is not fathomable and full statistics for the tragic fate of children who died will never be known. Some estimates range as high as 1.5 million murdered children. This figure includes more than 1.2 million Jewish children, tens of thousands of Gypsy children and thousands of institutionalized handicapped children who were murdered under Nazi rule in Germany and occupied Europe.
At the end of the service, all persons present lit a candle with the name of one jewish child who perished in the death camps. With the 100 or so persons present, we could go for a thousand years lighting candles for each child who perished, and still not be finished with the list.
We should all grieve, but out of respect for Anny-Yolande, and others who died with her, we must do all we can to prevent this from ever happening again.
Sadly, we have much to do.
Shalom! Peace!
Jean-Michel Priaux (46 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Art Touch - (Invit Only - No comment > Banned), and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Superb memory portrait !
:-)
HanaS. (45 months ago | reply)
This Sublime Image is really an Artistic Creation, and was seen in : Art Touch
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